Where a defendant CEO, who was held liable to the plaintiff under the Wage Act, has asserted (1) a cross-claim against a codefendant who served as the employing corporation’s president, chairman and secretary and (2) third-party claims against two corporate shareholders, the plaintiff has failed to set forth a basis for showing a breach of fiduciary duty.

Where a Massachusetts plaintiff alleges that its former president and his Georgia corporation stole the plaintiff’s confidential information and then competed against the plaintiff in the same industry, the court has specific jurisdiction over the defendants based on the alleged tortious acts that were committed in Massachusetts.

Where (1) a plaintiff, alleging that the defendant company failed to pay certain sales commissions that he earned as a sales representative, has brought a Massachusetts Wage Act claim as well as common-law claims for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, promissory estoppel, ‘unjust enrichment/quantum meruit’ and misrepresentation and (2) the defendant has moved to dismiss the common-law claims, those claims are not “superseded” by the Wage Act, so the motion to dismiss must be denied.

Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code displaces the common law on the question of the proper measure of a secured creditor’s recovery under G.L.c. 106, §9-405, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. “In view of art. 9′s comprehensive scheme ...

Where a judge entered a judgment for a plaintiff bank following a jury verdict against a defendant construction company, the judgment must be vacated on the issue of the defendant’s estoppel defense. “This case requires us to determine, among other ...

Where a defendant author of medical journal article was awarded summary judgment in a suit brought by the plaintiff manufacturer of hip protectors, the judgment was proper given the plaintiff’s failure to demonstrate a reasonable expectation of proving all of the essential elements of a cause of action for commercial disparagement.